Percona

JUNE 9, 2023

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) boasts many functionalities that support its extension, be it by using Custom Queries, Custom Scripts, or by collecting data from already available External Exporters. In this short blog post, we will see how to quickly (and easily) monitor a PostgreSQL cluster managed by Patroni.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2021

HashiCorp’s Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. What is monitoring as code? Within the Terraform CLI, users can instrument code to build and run Dynatrace monitoring for the services they’ll deploy from the same CLI.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2021

Monitoring and observability are important topics for any developer, architect, or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), and this holds true independent of the language or runtime of choice. The idea, and most of the content for this blog, comes from one of our Partners; Stephan Dannewitz , DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer at avodaq AG.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

Infrastructure monitoring is the process of collecting critical data about your IT environment, including information about availability, performance and resource efficiency. Many organizations respond by adding a proliferation of infrastructure monitoring tools, which in many cases, just adds to the noise. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent is great for monitoring the full stack. While this will give you a lot of information about the health of these components, sometimes a simple synthetic monitor is sufficient. Third-party synthetic monitors. Visualize your synthetic monitor data. Easy and flexible infrastructure monitoring.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit for services and applications that run in containers. What stands out with these extensions is that they use a declarative approach to specify what needs to be monitored and how to do it. Dynatrace news. What is Prometheus and how does it work?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor. These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. AWS monitoring best practices. Automate monitoring tasks.

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Percona

JANUARY 3, 2024

A couple of weeks ago, we announced the first GA release of the PMM Dump : a new support tool that dumps Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) metrics and Query Analytics (QAN) data to transfer to the expert engineer for review and performance suggestions. That blog introduced a command-line interface. A week later, PMM 2.0.41.0

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 6, 2021

In my last blog article, I answered the question “What is OpenTelemetry?” , with the goal of providing a high-level overview of the OpenTelemetry project and answer some of the most commonly asked questions. Figure 1: OpenTelemetry Contributions (Source: CNCF Devstats). Dynatrace news. Importance of W3C Trace Context.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

This collector, fully supported and maintained by Dynatrace, is entirely open source. Understanding OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry is an open, vendor-neutral standard for creating, collecting, and transferring telemetry data, like traces, metrics, and logs. Why do I need an OpenTelemetry collector?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 12, 2021

Observability is the new standard of visibility and monitoring for cloud-native architectures. Requirements to achieve multicloud observability and monitoring. Environments with multiple cloud service providers that deploy microservices, containers, and Kubernetes systems require a more dynamic, modern approach to monitoring.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

Open source code, for example, has generated new threat vectors for attackers to exploit. A case in point is Log4Shell, which emerged in late 2021 and exposed open source libraries to exploitation. In recent years, the number of vulnerabilities has overtaken the ability to effectively monitor IT environments manually.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

If we added support to automatically instrument these libraries without lengthy code change, we can help save developers many hours and make the monitoring experience easier. The library is open source, and we plan to add support a plethora of different modules, as we attempt to cover more and more Python use cases.

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Monitoring Cache Open Source Database 242

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

There are several message queuing software options available for use today, including the following: Apache Kafka is an open source, distributed platform optimized for streaming information. Observability platforms address the challenge of message queue monitoring by capturing and analyzing queue data. Watch webinar now!

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

There are several message queuing software options available for use today, including the following: Apache Kafka is an open source, distributed platform optimized for streaming information. Observability platforms address the challenge of message queue monitoring by capturing and analyzing queue data.

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Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2021

Kubernetes (K8s) is the platform of choice for many organizations, providing a portable, extensible, open-source solution designed to streamline containerized workload oversight. According to InfoQ , Kubernetes monitoring offers substantial benefits for container management, but it’s not a complete platform in and of itself.

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Monitoring Infrastructure Open Source Metrics 184

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

These problems are the drivers behind Dynatrace’s solution offering called Cloud Automation and this two-part blog series shows how to tackle these problems using GitHub Actions. Topics in this blog series. Microsoft’s GitHub is the largest open-source software community in the world with millions of open-source projects.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Kubernetes is a widely used open source system for container orchestration. Properly monitoring a Kubernetes cluster or any related environment can be difficult. Service-level objectives (SLOs) are often used to monitor business-critical services and applications for customers.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Generative AI poised to have impact by automating software development, report says – blog According to ESG research, generative AI will change software development activities from quality assurance to CI/CD pipeline configuration. In this blog, Carolyn Ford recaps her discussion with Tracy Bannon about AI in the workplace.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Part one also provided an overview of Dynatrace’s Cloud Automation solution, Microsoft’s GitHub Actions , and open-source examples you can use and extend related to deployment and release monitoring. For orientation on the use cases in this blog series, refer to the picture below. Blog series use cases.

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Percona

MAY 8, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.37 Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.37

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Monitoring Open Source Database Servers 76

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. What is the difference between monitoring and observability? Is observability really monitoring by another name? In short, no.

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Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In order to accomplish this, one of the key strategies many organizations utilize is an open source Kubernetes environment, which helps build, deliver, and scale containerized Cloud Native applications. Don’t underestimate complexity. Kubernetes is not monolithic. Stand-alone observability won’t cut it.

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Monitoring Cloud Metrics Code 215

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

But OpenShift provides comprehensive multi-tenancy features, advanced security and monitoring, integrated storage, and CI/CD pipeline management right out of the box. Access a wide ecosystem of partners with open-source and cloud-native technologies. Key metrics for OpenShift monitoring. The result?

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 146

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In this blog post, we will go through the process of InnoDB buffer pool resizing online, covering why it is important to monitor its progress and how to monitor it. Importance of monitoring the InnoDB buffer pool resize Since MySQL 5.7.5,

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Monitoring Code Open Source Cache 86

Percona

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Setting up Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) alerts for multiple channels can significantly enhance your monitoring strategy. In this blog post, we will talk about the steps to configure alerts for some well-known communication platforms like Telegram , Slack , and WebHook.

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Monitoring Database Open Source Java 88

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss how to extend Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) to get PostgreSQL metrics on checkpointing activity, internal buffers, and WAL usage. You can search the blog for more information on this if needed. You can search the blog for more information on this if needed.

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Monitoring Tuning Metrics Servers 89

Percona

AUGUST 24, 2023

Welcome to our guide on keeping your Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server and Client up-to-date. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through a method to ensure your PMM solution runs the latest and most secure versions. Together, we can keep your monitoring solution up-to-date effortlessly and enhance its effectiveness.

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Percona

AUGUST 2, 2023

Monitoring the progress of the restore process is essential to estimate completion time and ensure everything is proceeding smoothly. In this blog post, we will explore two distinct and effective methods to calculate the percentage progress of the MySQL restore process. rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2.3G What is Pipe Viewer Utility?

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Database Monitoring C++ Speed 82

Percona

JUNE 27, 2023

Percona Alerting was introduced in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.31, and it brought a range of custom alerting templates that makes it easier to create Alert rules to monitor your databases. In this blog post, we’ve reviewed how to do that, for example, in a MongoDB setup.

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Monitoring Open Source Database Servers 75

Scalegrid

JANUARY 3, 2020

Monitoring your MySQL database performance in real-time helps you immediately identify problems and other factors that could be causing issues now or in the future. This is usually done through monitoring software and tools either built-in to the database management software or installed from third-party providers.

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Monitoring Metrics Servers Database 164

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Open source vulnerabilities creeping in through the software supply chain are one key reason for this substantial increase. According to one survey, supply chain attacks on open source software increased 650% in 2021. And in the supply chain, open source is clearly a vulnerability.

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Software Software Open Source DevOps 189

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Docker Engine is built on top containerd , the leading open-source container runtime, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (DNCF). Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform for managing, automating, and scaling containerized applications. Built-in monitoring. What is Kubernetes?

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Percona

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Percona stands for open source and keeps open source open for everyone. Open source software is impossible without the efforts of the community. They not only contributed code but also reported issues, helped users on the forum, and wrote blog posts on the Community website.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2022

Gartner has estimated that 70% of new cloud-native application monitoring will use open source instrumentation by 2025. The arrival of the OpenTelemetry initiative is timely, as development teams are increasingly becoming active in monitoring and observability efforts to accelerate release times and simplify management.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Open source software is likewise playing a larger role in cloud computing, which brings benefits and dilemmas: bad actors have ready access to open source software and can identify new vulnerabilities to exploit. This means that attackers may have already gained access to sensitive information or compromised the system.

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Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 186

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Still, as DBA, you want to use Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) for better database insights and maintain a common policy of Datadog as a standard alerting or high-level observability tool. Percona Monitoring and Management is not intended to replace Datadog; rather, they work better together. We are looking for your feedback.

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